This follow-up to the 2014 box features ten vinyl records and probably SDE’s favourite Bruce Springsteen studio album, Tunnel of Love. Everything has been newly remastered and this comes with a 60-page book.

Pink Floyd / Pulse (4LP vinyl box)

The 1995 Pink Floyd live album has been remastered from the original tapes. This 4LP box set also comes with a 52-page hardcover book.

Paul McCartney / Vinyl and CDs

With rumours of ‘proper’ reissues Wings’ Wildlife and Red Rose Speedway doing the rounds, for now we have to make do with album-only black and limited edition coloured vinyl pressings of Wings Greatest, Thrillington, New and Chaos and Creation in the Backyard. CDs also being issued. Re-releasing New – which is, after all, Paul’s last studio album – is a bizarre thing to do.

Wire / Multi-disc reissues (2CD & CD deluxe editions)

Wire‘s first three albums – Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154 are remastered and reissues in two and three-CD sets and all are presented as 80-page hardcover books – the size of a seven-inch single. Great value.

Pink Floyd / Relics (180g vinyl)

Relics came out in 1971, just before Meddle, and features tracks from Pink Floyd‘s first three albums. It has the subtitle A Bizarre Collection of Antiques & Curios. This is remastered.

Cockney Rebel / Vinyl and CD reissues

Cockney Rebel‘s The Human Menagerie and The Psychomodo are reissued on both vinyl and CD. The vinyl versions are all analogue – cut direct from the original tapes. These are album-only, with no bonus tracks.

Steve Miller Band / Complete Albums Vol 1 – 1968-1976

This new Steve Miller Band vinyl box set brings together the group’s first nine studio albums in a 9LP vinyl box.

Otis Redding / Dock of the Bay Sessions

Dock of the Bay Sessions is a 12-track compilation that attempts to paint a picture of what ‘the next’ Otis Redding album might have looked like had the singer not been tragically killed in a plane crash on 10 December 1967.

Marc Bolan & T. Rex / The Final Cuts (RSD red vinyl)

Demon Records are making some of their RSD 2018 releases more widely available this week and this is a vinyl picture disc of the 2006 Marc Bolan release that features some of his last T Rex recordings.

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Desire (RSD 2018) [VINYL]

Polish-born Basia made her name with Matt Bianco in the mid-80s, but left with Danny White after the first album to concentrate on her solo career. Her first two albums were very successful commercially, particularly in the US, but she took a near 20-year break from music in the late ’90s which explains why Butterflies is only her sixth studio album. Danny White returns to collaborate.

23 responses to Out This Week / on 18 May 2018

One thing I am getting fed up with in buying so many expensive reissues is the pixilated sleeves. The Springsteen box sounds and looks great. But the sleeves – Tunnel of Love looks like an unofficial pirate reproduction. The Tom Waits isnt much better. And on RSD I put the Bowie debut double back in the rack when I saw how horrid the reproduction of the sleeve was. 50 years since some of these records were released for the first time, is it really impossible for the record companies to match the quality of the original? Why?

Kissing The Pink – What Noise (remastered & expanded) for the first time on CD from Cherry Red. Let’s see what kind of mastering this will get. The expanded Naked reissue from Cherry Red is a treasure trove too, but sadly lost a lot of dynamic range to the original CD. What Noise wasn’t released on CD before, so it will be interesting what kind of production tapes they have used for this release.

1. THE OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN
2. CAPTAIN ZERO
3. VICTORY PARADE
4. GREENHAM
5. EACH DAY IN NINE
6. THE RAIN IT NEVER STOPS
7. RADIO ON
8. MARTIN
9. WATCHING THE TEARS
10. FOOTSTEPS
11.LOVE AND MONEY
12.WHAT NOISE?

BONUS TRACKS
13.THE OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN (7″ REMIX)
14.RADIO ON – (12″ VERSION)
15.HOW CAN I LIVE
16.KATHERINE CLARKE
17.THE OTHER SIDE OF HEAVEN (12″ VERSION)
18. CELESTIAL
19.WHAT NOISE? (LONGER VERSION)

RE The Breeders
Mountain Battles + Title TK are also being reissueed in the same campaign.
Ive pre ordered mine from thee utterly superb Piccadilly Records in Manchester
Hoping they’re as excellent as the recent Cocteau Twins reissues of Treasure and Head Over Heels
cheers for mentioning the breeders, freakin awesome band.
cheers
Simon.

To be honest, after you had an article featuring Press To Play a little while ago, I’m looking forward to this one too. A real gem would be a deluxe Flaming Pie though, especially with the awesome ‘In The World Tonight’ documentary included. A beautiful album I’m sure everyone will agree…

Can’t wait for Wildlife & Red Rose Speedway to arrive. Hopefully Red Rose Speedway has a similar presentation to McCartney II, in that it was apparently originally envisioned as a double album, but edited down to one… The extra tracks for McCartney II, which was already one that I loved, were fantastic.

Maybe you could do an article, once the confirmations of the releases start trickling in, on what might be included in the audio/video etc…? What do you reckon, Paul?

It would be really good if they did do that with Red Rose Speedway. At the moment it’s still very much speculation, but Scott Rodger did hint that Wildlife, in particular, was being worked on when I spoke to him WAY back in Dec 2016!

Great! You think that will then lead to London Town/Back To The Egg following? I agree with what you said about closing the Wings chapter. Plus, do you think he may include the Wingspan documentary on one of these, as a closing celebration, or maybe some longer live samples or a full concert like Rockshow?

I was hoping for Flaming Pie for the 20th anniversary. Again, it’s 2018, so this is still plausible… What are your thoughts on The Beatles Anthology series getting a possible expanded release, Paul? The Super Deluxe of Sgt. Pepper was a treasure trove and a lot of tracks were left out of these releases in the nineties, Carnival Of Light being one to seek out… I’m sure the extra tracks from the Free As A Bird & Real Love singles will turn up on them.

Good point on the Anthology Box, Paul. It would make sense to include the documentary in there too. This could also yield unreleased footage etc.

Were you lucky enough to see the Ron Howard documentary, Eight Days A Week at the cinema? The best part was seeing the whole ’65 Shea Stadium concert after the film. Unfortunately they didn’t include it on the Blu-ray/DVD release due to the copyright issues that flared up around the cinema release, so it would be fantastic to have the full thing in a new remastered Anthology box.

I enjoyed rising at stupid o’clock for the Bolan’s this year.Took me back to the overnight queue outside Birmingham Odeon, 1972 for front row T.Rex in June.
I was that soldier.
;-)
(Demon Records-you b******s!)

You won’t get everything via amazon and eBay and also cost you more currently
The floyd / Bowie/ soundgarden sets are more than the store prices on the day and no sign of the stones / ocean colour scene etc
The singles on the day (Noel g / u2 / zeppelin) are way more on amazon currently
The only rad bargain I’ve seen online was Madonna you can dance for £14 via amazon 3rd party seller
And the best bit of rsd is the banter in the queue